Rio+20: A New Agenda for Sustainability – or More of the Same?
The Rio+20 Conference on Sustainable Development is rapidly approaching -- an important opportunity to make progress on the global sustainability agenda. A panel of Reid Detchon, United Nations Foundation, David Sandalow, Under Secretary of Energy, and Robert Engelman, Worldwatch, discussed the developing agenda.
The “Managing Our Planet” seminar series – developed jointly by George Mason University and the Wilson Center’s Environmental Change and Security Program and Brazil Institute – addresses planetary scale problems and solutions.
*Picture courtesy of UNCSD
Speakers
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Brazil Institute
The Brazil Institute—the only country-specific policy institution focused on Brazil in Washington—aims to deepen understanding of Brazil’s complex landscape and strengthen relations between Brazilian and US institutions across all sectors. Read more
Environmental Change and Security Program
The Environmental Change and Security Program (ECSP) explores the connections between environmental change, health, and population dynamics and their links to conflict, human insecurity, and foreign policy. Read more